On Tue, 9 Jun 2015 19:31:01 +0200 Andreas Tunek <andreas.tunek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Currently the #fedora channel on freenode requires some kind of > registration. Yeah. It has for many years... > In my opinion it is pretty difficult to register on > freenode (I have tried but haven't managed). What part of the process is proving to be difficult? If you aren't registered and try and join #fedora it sends you to #fedora-unregistered where the entry message, topic and a bot all give you links showing how to register. Is there something that could be more clear here? > Do you think it would be > possible to drop the registration requirement? It is a pretty big > barrier to newbies and people like me who can't find IRC help easily. > I know there are a lot of bots and spam, but maybe it would be > possible to try and see if it really gets bad? Well, you are welcome to file a ticket and request that with the irc support sig: https://fedorahosted.org/irc-support-sig/ But I don't think it's too likely to happen for a lot of reasons: * Originally the registration was put in place when there were floods of racist ranter bots on freenode. They are much less common now, but I still see them in unregistered from time to time. * There's also a lot of drive by spam and trollers that get caught by registration. kevin
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